Fashion design
Fashion design is the art dedicated to the creation of wearing apparel.
Centuries ago, for example, Kings and Queens had their personal clothes sewers to make them the best looking dresses with the finest products. These sewers could be considered to be the first fashion designers.
The boom of fashion designing, however, came after the World War II, a time where countries were brought closer by tourism, and thus people began to learn about other's costumes and cultures.
People like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (commonly known as Jackie Kennedy), her supposed love rival Marilyn Monroe and other movie stars such as Jayne Mansfield and their dresses became known world-wide, and so did the men and women who dressed them.
During the 1960s the faces that wore the creation of fashion designers started to change, as they realized that there was money to be made among the more common people too and models like Twiggy became famous too.
Fashion designing kept on going along with the changes of times brought by the 1970s and 1980s and during the 1990s although the designing world didn't lose its eye on the higher society, a more affordable, so called urban leg of the fashion world sprang aloft too. With that movement, famous trademarks like Tommy Hilfiger, Arizona and Dr. Martens popped out on mall stores and establishments worldwide.
Modern fashion design is roughly divided into two categories, Haute-Couture, and Ready-to-Wear. This can be thought of as analogous to "theory" and "practice." A designer's Haute-Couture collection is meant exclusively for the catwalk and perhaps photographs. These are more exotic or abstract clothes then people would really wear. Ready-to-wear is the kind that is actually sold to people. Designers typically produce both each season.
Most fashion designers go to a college and get a degree in graphic arts.
They usually tend to keep an eye on things going on world-wide to inspire themselves towards making their future clothes lines, but they can also be trend-setters and try to change the way people look around the world by coming with new ideas.
Usually a fashion designer's team includes hair dressers, make-up artists, modeling agencies and the model herself or himself.
Also many fashion designers have broken the tradition of dedicating themselves to clothes designing only and come out with perfume lines, becoming successful perfume designers too.
Many fashion designers use cities like Paris, London, Rome, New York, Dallas and Chicago as sites to show the world their talents.
Famous fashion designers
Famous models who have made the jump from the fashion world to the show business world include:
See also: Fashion
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